Chippendale sofa, take three

I did it again! The poor Chippendale sofa from House of Miniatures... The fabric was too dark, and it felt out of place in the now white salon. Gertrude was very pleased when she set her eyes on it. "But it wont be in the salon, what salon are you talking about? It will be in my morning room, even though I will spend most of my days there." So be it. It has a femenine, chintz feel to it now. While I was downstairs doing some vaxing, she made herself comfortable. It's a good sign when the lady of the house likes a piece of furniture just as I do. So, three time a charm? I hope so!

Kits & Miss Nilsson

I have been working on some kits today and yesterday. The sewing table is from Mini Mundus, the rest are House of Miniatures. Kits are wonderful! I used a kind of vax called "georgian mahogony" to get the look I wanted. Never used vax before so I quite liked it.

Little Dagmar liked the furniture too, and she has, according to Gertrude, been playing (jumping) on them while I have been at work. She has been trying to pacify the girl and when she was about to fall of the Hepplewhite Huntboard, she had had enough. "GET ME A GOVERNESS OR SELL THIS CHILD ON EBAY." Ok...

So she was introduced to Miss Nilsson, a very sober but kind young lady with a strange hairdo. Gertrude was quite taken by her, asked her down to sit on the Lyre Back Chairs with her. Florence came as well, and Dagmar offered her some cabbage (that she probably stole somewhere).

Gertrude shows her colours!

Gertrude was very severe when she told me that the wallpaper in the servants quarter would not do, too dreadfully boring. She is the mistress of the house and responsible for the welfare of the people employed. Lucky for me, I went shopping yesterday and found a striped paper intended for scrapbooks. Gertrude approved. And she was right, it looked a bit more cheerful now. Gertrude reminded me that the servants were not slaves, they could very well murder their masters in the beds if they were not happy about terms of conditions. Oh dear!

And here is another bad picture of more bricks. Funny, I had never done any bricks before I started this project, and now bricks seems to be everything I do. The bricks on this particular picture is darker, I forgot to add orange when I painted the cartons... Or I can say that the clay they used for building this wall was different from the rest, from up north or something.

This is the last work I will do on my basement for a very long time. I will go work in my home town as a museum guide, living at my parents house. I have my two houses there. The yellow house, where the basement belongs to. And the the red cottage. I will bring my tools along with me and intend to do a lot of work. It's been ages since I did anything on them and I have lots of plans! Until Sunday, happy midsummer!

Gertrude!

From another victorian housemaid came Gertrude, an edwardian woman. Before I pinned her hair up she looked like Botticellis Venus with her wonderful curls. Was truly tempted to let her remain a free spirited venus, but that would not be very decent in my dollshouse...



And here she is with her daughter Florence, still not wearing stockings...